A new bill being considered in the Florida House of Representatives would offer $100,000 prizes to private citizens who are ...

These are the bills that died in this year's legislative session. (Photo illustration by Jackie Llanos/Florida Phoenix) A session that started under the lingering shadow of a bitter yet short-lived ...

The Florida Legislature is about to meet. Will it clean up SB 180 only to come up with new gifts to developers?

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A memorandum from the Florida state Senate says lawmakers have agreed on a joint budget allocation with the House. The budget conference is scheduled to begin Tuesday. According to ...

The Florida state legislature is considering a bill to lift restrictions on teenagers' ability to work. SB 918, introduced by Republican state Sen. Jay Collins, would allow 16- and 17-year-olds to ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida state lawmakers will return to Tallahassee next week to try again to pass a budget. The legislative session ended without one on Friday, but state House and Senate leaders ...

The Republican-controlled Florida Legislature has passed bills to rename the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America" in response to President Donald Trump's directive, requiring state agencies and ...

A wide-ranging proposal dubbed the "rural renaissance bill" is back and ready to be heard by the full chamber in January.

A new bill filed in the Florida Legislature this week aims to demolish a decades-old state law governing same-sex marriage.

The proposal to spend $400 million on the Grove Land Reservoir in central Florida was inserted last year late in the budget process. TALLAHASSEE, Florida — State House and Senate budget negotiators ...

Florida Republican lawmakers are continuing to push for a repeal of a gun safety law passed in the state after the Parkland massacre in 2018, despite mass shootings still occurring in the United ...